Taylor The Latte Boy

[*Beautifully Tragic*]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 1:57pm

Hey guys.. this may be a stupid question but this song that Kristin sings.. is it from a musical or just from her C.D.?

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:02pm

I think that it is just a cabaret type song and not from any show.

[*Beautifully Tragic*]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:04pm

oh.. I just got her As I Am C.D. and was wondering since it's bonus.. it's sounds sortof musical and is a LOT different from the rest of her songs on that C.D. .. have you ever heard it

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:11pm

It's not from a show, it's just an overdone cabaret song.

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:13pm

I think like everyones done a randition of this song. I like Kdogs randition though its fab as usual.

[ACTOR jes]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:14pm

i know that susan egan sang it on her cd titled (excuse me if i'm wrong) Coffee House. or something to that extent. that was before Kristin's lovely rendition. i would assume that susan had it written for herself for that coffee house album. but i may be mistaken.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:16pm

Kristin has been singing it for years and years. She first did it on the Rosie O show during her Charlie Brown days.

[adamized88]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:18pm

you're both right - kristin started singing it first - susan recorded it first

and john tartaglia does a hysterical version in his concerts

[adamized88]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:20pm

It actually was once in a show that kristin was in (or so I've heard) it was called "adventures in love" -and it's a musical revue that played in st. paul and dallas - a friend of mine actually saw the show and remembered loving it - no recording exists though


here's some info about how it was written from a talkin broadway interview with zena and marcy

ZG: When Marcy is alone at night writing, she's drawing from her experiences for lyrics and song ideas, but the ideas are not complete until we get together. "Taylor" is a prime example of how something will happen to us and we will turn it into a song. We were in Starbucks one day and really did meet this young guy named Taylor. We were chatting with him and were totally drunk ...

MH: (directly into microphone) Not totally drunk! Just pleasantly inebriated! With all of our faculties still intact!

ZG: That's right! And for the next few weeks we were going around chanting "Taylor the latte boy, bring me java, bring me joy." That was it; just those two lines. They kept sticking in our head until we thought, "You know, maybe we should complete this song."

MH: For that song, we definitely came up with the chorus first. I could not think of a phrase to finish the first sentence: "There's a boy who works at Starbucks, who is very inspirational, he is very inspirational, because of ... " I could not think of a way to end it, so I just wrote down " ... many things." And we never changed it! I thought I would come up with a phrase later on, but we decided that that was the feel we wanted for the song. So rather than writing something like, "Zina and I were tipsy, and wandered into a Starbucks," we created a character that we didn't expect.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/cabaret/zinamarcy.html

[ACTOR jes]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:20pm

I would love to hear that version!

he's a crack up.
do you happen to know where I could possibly get a recording of Tartaglia's version?

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:20pm

omg i love john tartaglia version it is hilarious!

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:21pm

That's not true. Christiane Noll recorded it first.


Live at The West Bank Cafe

[the girl in 14G]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:24pm

it was from a show called "adventures in love"

[AUtahFann]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:27pm

There's a local radio program in Utah that only plays show tunes on Saturday nights. It's called Showtune Saturday Night and recently there has been a big debate on the show about whether or not the host, Erica Hansen, should play "Taylor the Latte Boy" since it's not from a musical so, therefore, not really a show tune. But she loves the song, as I do, and usually plays it about every other week and talks about it, etc. So if you want to hear it, the program is available to listen to online beginning at http://www.kosy.com/pages/showtune_saturday_night/. It starts at 8pm MST. 4 hours of nothing but showtunes. Ya gotta love it. Erica also happens to have been a backup singer for WIW star, Michael Ball, when he performed in Salt Lake City in 2004.

[*Beautifully Tragic*]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 2:48pm

yeahh.. I had downloaded it for my Mp3 and it was the version from the Rosi O'Donnell show.. but her version is the only one I've heard.

[adamized88]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 3:01pm

my apologies bobbybubby - i'd never heard of christine noll's version

[Jazzysuite82]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 3:44pm

Ohh Christiane's version is quite lovely. But then again Christiane is quite lovely too.

[NO_Day_but_TODAY]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 5:42pm

I've heard this song sang thousands of times. I don't believe it's from a particular show though...

[greenegirl87]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 6:42pm

No offense NO_Day_but_TODAY, but did you read the rest of the thread? A couple of people already posted about it being in a show called "Adventures in Love". I don't mean to be rude or snappy, but just read the whole thread before posting...(which I know we are ALL guilty of failing to do sometimes...)

[elphatine]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 7:16pm

Here's a link to John Tartaglia singing it; I know some of you mentioned that you wanted it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3BXQNOLU

[greenegirl87]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 7:17pm

Yay! Thanks elphatine!